"To be clear, the court today holds that Indian country within a state's territory is part of a state, not separate from a state," Kavanaugh wrote in a decision that scholars of Native American law said was a major departure from longstanding precedent.
This seems like a drastic change :deeper-sadness:
"Now the state prosecutors can take up the slack and get back to what we have been doing for 113 years," O'Connor added.
:amerikkka:
This seems like a drastic change
This is a complete rollback of everything the Native American movement has won in the last 70 years. This is the end of legal sovereignty.
The "fun" thing is that they annihilated a lot of precedents and federal laws for this.
Pffft, it’s not like treaties are enshrined in the constitution as literally above all other law including everything else in the constitution or something
Less 'pulling into the cool zone' and more 'driving into the Cool Zone at 150 mph' I see
Full transparency, I’m not native, so take this with a grain of salt.
It’s not a universal thing. Some prefer American Indian. Some prefer indigenous. I personally have a friend who used to roast the fuck out of me when I used the term “Native American”. Just said it sounded awkward and he’d grown up thinking of himself as Indian. When in doubt, ask. If you need a default, using the name of the specific tribe is usually a safe bet.
Yeah I’ve parroted what little shit I’ve been told by indigenous friends and a little bit I learned on nativetiktok, so I think that’s all I’m gonna say about it
Where I'm from (Canada), that term is a slur, and although there are some individuals and groups who prefer to go by that term, best practice is usually to use a term that's not viewed by many as a slur. Yeah, some people prefer it, but also many find it outright offensive. In Canada, that tends to be First Nations, which in my experience hasn't ever been viewed negatively, but that might just be a cultural difference between here and the US.
It's important to remember that the indigenous peoples of the Americas are not a monolithic culture, society, or community, and that using a singular term as a catch-all for them isn't even really appropriate outside of specific contexts.
One explanation I’ve heard is that for 200+ years “Indian” has been the word used to refer to native people within the borders of the United States, and while that’s many different tribes with different cultures, they have the shared history of oppression by the United States.
Native American is overly inclusive and could apply to any indigenous people across two continents.
Also it is still the official term the US gov uses, it’s still called the “Bureau of Indian Affairs” I believe.
hey at least theyre backing all of us undesirables into the same corner at the same time :yea:
Cool! Even more horrors beyond my comprehension. Awesome.
The worst year of supreme court decisions in history so far :homer-bye:
at this rate it won't belong before they decide the court isnt needed, the 'president'(tm) is a great judge
This is why Gorsuch is the last conservative justice to kill. For some reason, he always stands with tribal sovereignty. Unfortunately, the court's too far gone for that.
He ruled against trans (iirc) discrimination too. Exceedingly, infinitely critical respect for a ghoul admitting when even the ghoul rules say he can't be a ghoul.
We talk a lot about terminal :brainworms: here but I think Gorsuch is the true perfect example. He literally believes what he is saying (that laws have to be followed according to their literal textual interpretation) so closely that he'll go against the other reactionaries on the court. You do not, by any means, gotta hand it to him, but it's genuinely impressive to see someone who is more worm than brain
He grew up near a reservation and presumably had friends in the nearby tribe explain these things to him. Guess he never bothered to learn about other perspectives after that.
Starting a betting pool on how long before CHUD states' governors start sending the National Guard to genocide indigenous people on reservations because the tribal elders legalized weed.
Settler colonialism is an ongoing process in which the goal of the settler state is the total annihilation of the native population
Maybe our liberals being even more useless will give the left the opportunity we need
a century of capitalist brain drain defeating its own plans?
oh hey what's this rope advertisement doing here
It really is one step forward and two steps back for indigenous people in this country, huh? The US government finally recognizes the awful things that happened at boarding schools and immediately after this shit comes down.
I would not like to sit by as the feds start the genocide machine back up in full force, unsure what to do
So this is what acceleration feels like
Also it sounds like this is referring to criminal cases, I would assume so that they can prosecute abortion and stop haven clinics from being built in native landGorsch is seething that the new fash court blew up in his face
One can only hope the political branches and future courts will do their duty to honor this nation's promises even as we have failed today to do our own
How could you study America's treatment of indigenous people and ever think that America would ever honor a promise. Hundreds of years of breaking promises, and yet holding out hope that we'd ever change.
The US has a long history of one guy crying in vain as the rest of the country exterminates a population.
Gorsuch is simply filling that role.
